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I agree with Chip Rosenthal's take on downloading music; I would prefer a reliable and legal downloading solution to the inconsistent performance of peer-to-peer networks. I would also add that downloading music via P2P networks takes much too long; by the time you find a decent copy of the music you're looking for you wish you had spent the time buying CDs at Half.com. Not that I don't see a use for P2P networks--they're great for finding some really rare and difficult, if not practically-impossible-to-find, music. Yet I know of people who download terabytes of MP3s to save for the future--I guess you never know when you're going to absolutely need that copy of Barry White's Greatest Hits--but I can only imagine feeling sorry for these obsessive downloaders. Many, if not most, of the files found through these systems have been poorly encoded, so they'll need to be tossed out and reobtained. But that's not the worst of it. We're already seeing the introduction of better audio files, and most audiophiles know that you can't recompress an audio file without losing some of the sound quality. So who's going to want to be stuck with millions of MP3's when future audio files will better, faster, and stronger? [.wav; provided by My Boot]
Let's hope these music downloading services get their stuff together and give the people what they want: simple, great sounding music at a fair cost. It's as simple as that; how many times do we have to tell you?!?
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